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We allow people to self-identify their religious beliefs. The government doesn't declare you to be a Catholic or a Buddhist and force your driver's license to say such. Unless you'…

Without enforcement mechanisms (a PIER plan in this context), the 14th Amendment is just blots of ink on paper.

Rustup downloads toolchains from third-party (to the distro) repositories; distros do not want to be in a position where they can no longer build packages because of an external se…

Your questions are related. For context: since a base64 character represents 6 bits, every block of three data bytes corresponds to a block of four base64 encoded characters. (8 3 …

If you want your function to block until the promise resolves, then the function calling it also has to block, and the function calling that has to block, and so forth. At the top …

It's not easy to divorce "culture war" from "problem solving", since the question of whether problems even _exist_ and need to be solved is frequently a culture-war issue. For exam…

The bytes[0] crate is a popular library in the Rust ecosystem for taking reference-counted slices of a shared byte buffer. [0]: https://docs.rs/bytes/1.0.1/bytes/struct.Bytes.html

(I think your definitions are reversed- a decrease in money supply is associated with deflation , not inflation.)

rust-embed is one: https://docs.rs/rust-embed/5.9.0/rust_embed/trait.RustEmbed.... This macro lets you embed an entire folder of assets in your binary at compile time, to simplify …

tl;dr: Hyperbeam is roughly a netcat tunnel that connects via a DHT topic instead of network address; use it where you want a secure one-off tunnel. (for example, to transfer a key…

Most drivers in Linux are loadable modules- see the output of `lsmod`. They are built (usually) at the same time as the kernel, yes, due to the lack of ABI stability guarantees, bu…

If there's "too much" lag or packet loss, delay-based netcode will also become unplayable; the difference is that rollback has more tools to address bad connections, so that rollba…

It was possible with the early, finite-world-creative-only "Minecraft Classic", but as long as I remember (I started playing mid-Alpha, a few months before the Nether was added) th…

They may be thinking of IPFS, which is written in Go.

Data in a dat, just like data in a torrent, only lives as long as there are peers interested in seeding that particular dat; it's not a blockchain-style "everybody has to replicate…

Potentially. Most network protocols are big-endian while x86 is little-endian.

Moving accounts is supported; your old account posts a machine-readable "moved to x@y" message, which tells your followers to automatically switch to the new location. https://docs…

You can commit code that doesn't compile onto a feature branch so people can see what you're up to, I guess, but I don't see that helping with bisecting later, and I wouldn't expec…

Squashing changes isn't the only use of rebasing. It's reasonably common for me to start exploring a problem space, stub out a concept, and have a long drawn-out conversation with …

I love much about Fossil and used it a lot several years ago, but my workflow have mental model have since come to rely heavily on interactive rebase, a philosophy that Fossil abho…

Make the pay high enough to match the value generated, and you'll find enough janitors and garbage collectors.

"Capitalism" is used as the label for the policy one might more precisely describe as "regulatory minimalism"; the philosophy that opposes minimum wage laws, that opposes collectiv…

How is the ability to amass resources relevant to competence in determining the appropriate allocation? That's like saying that winning a game makes you competent to referee it.

Additionally, disclosure of one's vote can't be provable, or the failure to prove you voted "correctly" can itself invite retaliation.

It's hard to fix that problem when the people who benefit from it are in charge of setting the relevant policies.